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- From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
- Subject: Re: Why is Nykios AntiBible?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.221230.17969@cs.yale.edu>
- Keywords: slavery, pro-life
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- References: <nyikos.720712856@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Nov8.184806.26949@wetware.com> <nyikos.722119966@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:12:30 GMT
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- In article <nyikos.722119966@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >In <1992Nov8.184806.26949@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
- >>nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >>Well its clear that this citation of yours is
- >>intended to establish that you are AGAINST
- >>biblical principles, and what the BIBLE has
- >>to say about Slavery.
- >
- >Moses led the Israelites out of slavery. Paul sent a slave back to his
- >master, but this master might well have been as kind to the slave as
- >though it had been his own child, no? What conclusions am I supposed
- >to draw from all this?
- YHWH(through Moses) provided the Israelites with a legal code
- that explicitly endorsed slavery. I also remember something like
- "Slaves, obey your masters" in one of the Pastoral Epistles.
- It would be hard to argue that the Bible is anything but pro-slavery.
- -Ekr
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